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those already rooted. Gresneras and other plants, intended for 

 winter blooming, must soon have their last shift. Ventilate freely, 

 and shut up early in the afternoon. 



Kitchen Gaiiden. — Thin out all permanent seed-beds, such as 

 onions, carrots, etc., and plant out broccoli, cauliflowers, cubba^e, 

 kales, etc., for the winter, before they are too much crowded. Sow 

 scarlet-runners, dwarf French beans, beet, turnips, spinach, endive, 

 and lettuce ; the two last should be sown where tliey are to remain, to 

 prevent their running to seed too quickly, as is the case when sown 

 in beds and transplanted. Also sow marrow peas, and earth up and 

 stick those already forward enough. Prick out the late sown celery, 

 and make trenches, and plant out the earliest batch. Shade with a 

 few branches of evergreens for a few days after planting, and supply 

 with water. 



Fruit Garden. — Remove the runners from the strawberry- 

 plants directly they push, if not wanted for layering, or the parent 

 plants will soon be choked up with the young plants. Wash all the 

 ■trees on the walls, and those trained as pyramids, frequently with 

 the garden engine. 



FoECiNG. — Vine borders inside must be liberally supplied with 

 water, where the crops are swelling, and the atmosphere kept 

 moist by throwing water on the paths, and sprinkling the beds 

 and walls. Where the grapes are colouring, give abundant ventila- 

 tion, and keep the atmosphere dry. The crops should be watched, 

 and the border have a good soaking just before the grapes com- 

 mence colouring, so that no more is required until that process is 

 finished. Shift on young vines in pots, and help those bearing young 

 crops with manure-water. Peaches, nectarines, cherries, and figs, 

 swelling fruit, to have an increased temperature, with plenty of 

 water at the roots, and a thorough syringing twice a da}^ Crops of 

 these in a more advanced stage which are beginning to ripen, must 

 have less moisture above, and more below. Cucumbers and melons 

 require regular attention in stopping and training. Where the 

 heat is maintained by means of hot manure, add fresh linings directly 

 it begins to decline. The pines in the fruiting- house to have an 

 abundance of atmospheric humidity, to enable the fruit to swell 

 freely. Shift any young suckers that are pot-bound, and fill one of 

 the frames lately emptied of bedding stufl" with tan, and plunge 

 these and other young successionals in it, to give more room for 

 large plants. Pines, ni all stages, are now growing freely, and will 

 need more water than heretofore. 



Pits and Frames. — Give all the air possible to vegetable mar- 

 rows, tomatoes, ridge cucumbers, and chilies. It is a capital plan, 

 where any of these subjects are required early, to shift them into 

 eight-inch pots, and keep them growing until the time arrives for 

 planting out. 



